The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a 27-year-old cleaner, Saviour Udoh, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl on a church premises. Justice Ramon Oshodi held that the prosecution was able to prove the offence of defilement against the convict without reasonable doubt, stating that the defendant’s action was reprehensible and deserving of the maximum punishment under the law. Udoh was arraigned on February 5, 2020, on a count of sexual assault by penetration preferred against him by the state, to which he pleaded not guilty. According to the prosecution counsel, I.D. Solarin, the offence committed by Udoh contravened Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The court heard that the incident occurred on December 12, 2018, on the premises of a prominent Pentecostal church in Ikeja, Lagos. Udoh, who also worked as a cleaner at the church, approached the sleeping child in the children’s department and sexually a...

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  A pregnant woman identified as Ogunbunmi Lateef has reportedly been kidnapped by armed men in Ogun State. Ogunbunmi was said to have left her home in Oke Lantoro for the State General Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta before her reported abduction. Her husband, Ogunbunmi Lateef, was also reported to have received a WhatsApp message notifying him of his wife’s kidnap by these abductors. Confirming the incident, on Thursday in a statement on her X handle, the spokesperson for the state police command, Omolola Odutola, said the abduction had been reported to the command. Odutola wrote, “One Ogunbunmi Lateef of Oke Lantoro reported that his pregnant wife due for delivery left home for State Hospital Ijaiye Abeokuta. “He received a WhatsApp message confirming the abduction of his wife by unknown armed men.”

Another person killed at Oja Bisi this Afternoon Barely five hours after a  POS operator was killed in Ekiti,  A trader has again been gun down in Oja Bisi Area of Ado Ekiti. G*nmen this afternoon shot and killed an aboki man selling rice and beans at Oja Bisi It was reported that he was hawking when the killers came on a bike and fired at him. This is barely some hours after a popular pos man was killed adjacent to the gate of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti. Also, another person was shot yesterday night at Ori Apata,  It is not clear whether the killers are same group. FAST GIST MEDIA gathered from witnesses that the pattern of operation of the killers suggests a reprisal attacks by cult groups. The Spokesperson for Ekiti State Police Command, DSP Sunday Abutu has confirmed the incident adding that the command is seriously working to get the killers.  The Ekiti state government had declared state of emergency for all movement should be withi...

  Gunmen K!!l Popular PoS Operator in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State Capital. Report reaching says, gunmen in the early hours of Thursday shot and killed a Point of Sale agent popularly known as Alfa. This is coming barely 48hrs after a union executive of commercial motorcyclists was killed also in broad daylight. The incident happened at the shop of the victim which is located adjacent the gate of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti. Alfa is well known in the area with the display of bread on his vehicle and always available with cash. According to reports, the gunmen who came on a motorbike shot at Alfa and made away with his money and other valuables.One person who was transacting with him when the incident happened was said to have also sustained injury. Though, police is yet to confirm the incident, the body of the deceased has been deposited in the morgue.

  Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad. The legal team representing the Aloba family has expressed dissatisfaction with the toxicology test results concerning the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad. The legal practitioners, Wahab Shittu (SAN) and Taiwo Odumosu, Esq., during a press briefing held via Zoom on Monday, faulted the handling of the procedures, adding that it raised serious concerns about the integrity and thoroughness of the investigation by the police and the medical team into Mohbad’s death. PUNCH Metro exclusively reported that the US-based lab refuted the claim by the Lagos State Government that the toxicology test was conducted at its facility. The revelation was in response to inquiries made by our correspondent, who embarked on a fact-finding mission to ascertain the musician’s cause of death. The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, while responding to inquiries via a live telephone call with Ahmad Isah, the anchor of an Abuja-based on...

  David's house burnt by the vigilance group (Media Investigations) Seven months after MEDIA Investigations reported about the extrajudicial killing of a war veteran and farmer in Benue State, no fewer than ten suspects allegedly linked to the atrocious act have been charged to court.  TESSY IGOMU  reports MEDIA Investigations , in a  report titled – ‘War veteran, farmer murdered in cold blood as vigilantes hold Benue community hostage ’ , published on May 28, 2022, detailed how two kinsmen, David and Jonathan, were gruesomely murdered in cold blood by members of two vigilance group in Agerabul-Mbamo, a community in the Kpav District, Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of the state. Late David and Jonathan, a farmer and war veteran respectively, were members of a large, extended family known as Nyior-Kalagba. 1.1M 293 So This Happened (225) Reviews Tinubu's S'Court Victory, UNIPORT Student's Murder, Other | Punch Based on eyewitness’ accounts, the two men were al...